René Descartes

Ch.1 Clive Gamble’s “Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History,” begins with a brief discussion of a shared common ancestor amongst Africans believing this process of expansion settled the world. In addition, he provides a summary of hominins, a group we are included in with our extinct ancestors, Australopithecines, and Neanderthals (Gamble 2013: 23). As the text progressed, I began to understand the author’s notion of this first chapter. I believe this evolution of human…

With this being said, the affirmation of the Old Testament as being an inspired form of special revelation for the Christian faith has brought several critical questions about the epistemological value of the scriptures. In his book Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism, William Abraham quotes the philosopher Basil Mitchel on his account of the epistemological nature of the Christian Canon on the assumption that it is, in fact, divinely inspired. Basil Mitchel states:…

considered the house of the soul and the soul and is also the house of the spirit you cannot have one without the other. Nevertheless, Farley also mentioned different theorist who battles with the same notion of body, mind and spirit. In the same way, Rene Descartes coupled with the same substance of mind and body, “Je pense donc que je suis” if you are able to think, therefore you do exist. So, the body and the soul have to co-exist, no one can prove that the existence of the body without the…

Rene Descartes, a French intellectual, who challenged traditional ideas, said that “human reason was capable of discovering and explaining the laws of nature and man”. This idea of ‘human reason’ paramounting tradition led to the start of the Enlightenment,…

The Renaissance was a time period that happened around the year 1600, just for the sake of a good round number. That was decades and centuries after Plato and Socrates, years 399 to 450 B.C., who were the greatest philosophers the world has ever known. Even still is the Renaissance after Beowulf in the year 100, A.D. or C.E. The Renaissance is like a phoenix, the mythical creature that dies and is born again from the ashes. Also described as Rebirth, Enlightenment, and Rediscovery, the…

It is often said that faith, or religion, and reason are complementary sources of knowledge. However, this warrants critical appraisal, and I refute this claim using two premises. For the purpose of this argument, it must be made clear that it is faith that makes religion unreasonable. I propose that, reason and religion are fundamentally in conflict. Secondly, that because of this fundamental difference, it is unreasonable to believe something that is based on faith alone. Therefore, religious…

that God has male characteristics, they unintentionally placed blinders on everyone that agreed with them. To interpret Gods’ will through the eyes of a male. In the Fifteen century a famous philosopher would again interpret God as a male entity. Rene Descarte would state in his ontological argument “While from the fact that I cannot conceive God without existence, it follows that existence is inseparable from Him, and hence Armando Mejia-Alonso…

Rationalism is the idea of every fact is a fact for a reason; everything in rationalism is based off of logic thus, nothing is just “made up”; rationalism often exists in the fields of math and science. For instance, René Descartes was one of the earliest and best known proponents of rationalism; René believed the idea behind mathematics could be attained by reason alone without the need of any sensory experience thus, rationalism is…

cannot replace literature, art, philosophy and ethics. First, he explains how scientism is appealing by describing reductionism. “Reductionism is a basic and very successful approach common to the physical and biological science, articulated by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) in his Meditations on First Philosophy” (280). What Pigliucci is trying to say that reductionism analysis something that is complex, like an idea, then move that complex idea into something that is easier to represent and is…

known as the Scientific Revolution was well advanced, and many of the works of modern science had appeared. His studies at Cambridge went well. He became interested in science when studying the ideas of philosophers and mathematicians such as Rene Descartes. He sought a fellowship at Cambridge in order to pursue mathematical studies and was elected to a scholarship in 1664 that would guarantee his place there for four years. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree in 1665. However, that year, a…